theafflicted | 02.50 - week two, saturday

W2 SATURDAY

Like last Saturday, everyone will get an announcement on their tablets; this time, the announcement is preceded with a bell of some sort before Lorelei appears on the screen again.

"Good morning, everyone. This is an announcement to let you know that today's lesson will take place starting at 8:15 tonight. Again, today's lesson will be starting at 8:15. Please meet at the lower campus exit near the lecture by 8:00pm; Florence will be waiting for you there.

If you have a bag for some snacks and, perhaps, an item you can use for self-defense in the case of an emergency, please arrive with those things on you. We will provide you with an overview of what to expect when you arrive at 8pm.

Thank you."

The alert ends.

You have the day to prepare, ask each other what the hell is happening -- Florence and Lorelei do not seem to be available, strangely enough. There's a lot to take in with the information you have now. But before you know it... night falls.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Do you guys think we're being spirited away or something?

[ let's look out the bus window. actually, does this bus even have windows? ]

[ Chongyun's been saying from the beginning...! ]

Haven't we been already?

Well, like a second spiriting away. Like a spiriting away inside the spiriting away. I wonder how many souls we have--could it be that we're like cats with nine lives?

[ what the fuck ]

[ Hmm. He ponders this a moment. ]

Would we not need to be reborn in-between each life?

[ ryouma is totally eavesdropping whoops. ]

Not necessarily! I've been summoned to a place and then summoned to a place within that place. It's no big deal, really.

[ not helpful! ]

Oh, that's right! As long as you can bring your body into a form that's easily transferrable, such as data, you should be able to be spirited away multiple times, I think!

[ he taps his chin ]

But, mister Ryoma, do you have your Servant form?

Ah - if our entire being were to be spirited away and not just our soul, there's no need for us to die before being spirited away a second time.

[ He's grateful for such thoughtful and thorough companions. ]

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I don't, but maybe that thing we saw before we showed up here did that for us...? Then again, wherever we went the other day didn't involve anything weird other than waking up where we didn't belong so maybe it's the same thing...

[ ryouma definitely tries poking the driver and... nothing happens. ]

... I don't know, which isn't a good feeling.

Maybe we should take him apart and see if he's also made of wires?

[ I don't think he knows what wires are but that's not as important because: ] Sure, because he doesn't look like a ghost to me...

[ y'all chill. ]

I think it's established either way that it's not a normal response. Tampering with whatever's going on here might be bad for us. I've been in a situation like that before and we had to finish the whole thing out until the end.

But the answer could be right there in front of us. In fact, what if this is all like the Matrix and we're sleeping in some pod?

[ wei wuxian and chill do NOT go in the same sentence ]

It's not like they're going to let us go even if we don't tamper with it, since we're kind of... stuck here? Right?

That's right! Let's just try to take the steering wheel from the driver or something.

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Then who’s going to drive the bus?!

[Please think this through??]

Also I don’t want to see some creepy half-robot, thanks!

I can drive!

[ he raises his hand ]

I've piloted planes before, so busses should be no problem.

H-How are planes and a bus the same…

[He has driven neither so he’s not sure if this should be a real question or not. But Flat is a questionable individual and therefore he’s questioning, thanks.]

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M-maybe, but why would they kidnap us after they already kidnapped us?

Have you ever heard about the phrase 'secondary location'?

... You mean like the mall that opened during the second week?

Don’t trust the mall.

[Said in an ominous voice, but since they both Know, he also adds:]

I think I have to add about fifty don’t trusts to whatever this is, though.

Yeah... I don't think we can trust most things here.

[ ....

anyways, ]

No, a secondary location is where kidnappers take you after they take you to the first place.

[ Oh! That make sense, except: ]

Why wait a week to take us there?

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